Timeline/Schedule Milestone Comparison

[CCI_Dev]

Hello community,  Power BI novice here, hoping to get some help creating a timeline style visual.  I am trying to create a visualization that illustrates date shift on major milestones from a construction schedule.  I've trid using the Microsoft Gantt chart visualization, Timeline Basic, & Craydec Timelines.  I also tried creating a scatter plot but couldn't quite get that to work either.  Ideally I'd like to be able to customize the markers or at least colors. 

Any tips, third party visualizations, or tutorial links would be helpful.  Thanks much!

This is a simplified version of what I'm looking for created in Excel using a scatter plot. 

[v-xinruzhu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @CCI_Dev 

Based on your description, i create a visual use scatter plot in Power BI, you can refer it.

Sample data 

1.Create two calculated columns in table.

Rank = RANKX('Table',[Date],,ASC)

UpdateType = [Update]&" "&[Type]

Then select the UpdateType column and select sort by rank column

2.Create a measure 

Measure = 1

Then put the date to x-axis, put the measure to y-axis, and put the UpdateType column to legend.

Then you can set the mark in properities.

Output

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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[CCI_Dev]

Thank you so much for your expertise!

[CCI_Dev]

Thank you Yolo! That is exactly what I'm looking for.  The only thing would be I need the dates to plot relatively, not evenly spaced out.  Is that an option?  

[v-xinruzhu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @CCI_Dev 

If you want to achieve this, you can create the following field that the update field is blank, but the date field is not, you can refer to the following picture.

Then modifty the measure to the following

Measure = IF(MAX('Table'[Update])=BLANK(),-1,1)

Then set the min and max value of the y-axis.

Output

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[v-xinruzhu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @CCI_Dev 

Based on your description, i create a visual use scatter plot in Power BI, you can refer it.

Sample data 

1.Create two calculated columns in table.

Rank = RANKX('Table',[Date],,ASC)

UpdateType = [Update]&" "&[Type]

Then select the UpdateType column and select sort by rank column

2.Create a measure 

Measure = 1

Then put the date to x-axis, put the measure to y-axis, and put the UpdateType column to legend.

Then you can set the mark in properities.

Output

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.